Mathematician:Jacques Philippe Marie Binet

Mathematician

French mathematician best known for his contribution to the Binet-Cauchy Identity.

Recognized as the first to define the rules for matrix multiplication.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 2 Feb 1786, Rennes, Bretagne, France
• Died: 12 May 1856, Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Binet-Cauchy Identity (with Augustin Louis Cauchy) (also known as Binet's Formula)
• Cauchy-Binet Formula (with Augustin Louis Cauchy) (also known, confusingly, as the Binet-Cauchy Identity)
• Binet's Theorem
• Binet Form
• Euler-Binet Formula (with Leonhard Paul Euler) (also known as Binet's Formula)
• Binet's Formula for Logarithm of Gamma Function

Results named for Jacques Philippe Marie Binet can be found here.

Publications

• 1813: Mémoire sur un système du formules analytiques, et leur application à des considérations géométriques (J. l'École Polytechnique Vol. 9: pp. 280 – 354)

• 1840: Mémoire sur les intégrales définies eulériennes

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Jacques Philippe Marie Binet": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence
• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): A List of Mathematicians in Chronological Sequence